folding wormholes

shootin elephants

bigo — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:24:30 -0400

cat naps

bigo — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:18:03 -0400

Purritos

bigo — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:29:59 -0500

man...man that's cute

shabu shabu

bigo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:39:00 -0500

nema:	i want to eat shabu.
nema:	shabu
nema:	shabu
nema:	shabu
nema:	shabu
nema:	shabu
bigo:	nice
nema:	i want to eat Shamu
bigo:	IT'S ON.
bigo:	you
bigo:	me
bigo:	whale
nema:	and spicy miso
nema:	that should be an asian porn name

I'm On A Boat

bigo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:30:00 -0500

"I'm on a boat, motherfucker / don't you ever forget"

honestly

bigo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

if i'm to speak my heart:
if i'm to take that turn which
orients one wing down towards the floor of the earth,
pulls the other wing up towards the cieling of the sky,
and when righted points me in some new direction...

then i would admit to this page that I love you,
that I wake with you on the tip of my tongue,
my arms wrapped around your memory and
my hands still clasped hard at the small of your back,
lingering in my lungs the scent of your neck...

and if i'm to make this admission freely,
behind a pane of glass that separates me from the sky,
dulled by an obvious sunday rain,
wrapped as I am in the sheets of my own bed with
a sleeping cat as my only witness...
if i'm to make such a bold admission to a page in a journal...

then i must admit also that i went to sleep in the same position,
lost to reminiscence and fantasy,
the space between us and the places where there is no space,
our last touch,
our next embrace...

so it appears that if i were a linguist,
I may remark that thoughts of you frame my sleep like a
parenthetical,
curved around my dreams that they might suffuse those hours as
an orthography,
a vast eye in a yet infinite storm...

and too, it seems that if i tilt my head to the other side,
and squint or open my eyes just so,
I might come to remark that the curves you
circumscribe
around my dreams don't only demarcate what lies inside;
that with a simple inversion of vision,
a twist in perspective,
I see that you just as easily contain the
waking moments of my days...
such that I cannot distingiush whether you
describe or
are described by
the hours of my life, and I trust that
it could not possibly matter,
because all these hours are the sweetest for it.

so i might eventually recognize
that no matter which way my head is oriented,
and no matter how shallow or deep my eyes are focused,
that the image always is the same which projects onto
that most precious nerve, to be subsumed into the electric
storm of our mind's mind:
the expansive vision of your slender frame,
radiant in the light of a sun that shines behind one iris,
resplendant in a moon's glow behind the other.

such that in the end, my Love,
when the parts are summed, and
the total proportions measured,
I should have no choice but to admit:

that i choose to wake to your glow;
that i would surround you in your sleep.

talking to the ocean

bigo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

my heart's mind holds a million thoughts,
a million ideas, staged across the spectrum from
iota to universe,
a million words, magically arranged and subdivided into a million sentences,
a million questions, reasons -
a million heart beats -
and they all, every one of them,
funneled from my lungs,
arise from my chest through the chamber of my throat,
to crawl their way across the cavern of my mouth...

and just before the light:
just before i loose these larval notions, fully formed, upon the world -
winged beasts with power and strength and frightful solidity -

i realize that i am talking to an ocean who no longer calls me kin,
and like a mountaineer who's pushed his luck just before the climax of his conquest,
my mouth will not open,
and these words i cradled from birth submit and die quietly on the tip of my tongue

lo-lo's wisdom

bigo — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:37:00 -0500

lauren:	have you been sleeping with mr kittyface?
bigo:	god yes
bigo:	where would i be
bigo:	without that little animal
lauren:	is that gay?
bigo:	not with us
bigo:	it's just loving
lauren:	it's futonic

9 Myths About Yelp

bigo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:14:49 -0500

http://officialblog.yelp.com/2009/02/9-myths-about-yelp.html

from the horse's mouth

Some sanity in the recent Yelp controversies

bigo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:52:40 -0500

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10168065-93.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1

There's been a firestorm brewing recently surrounding Yelp's credibility, fueled mostly my confused business owners. As an engineer at Yelp it's really difficult to sit back and listen to people lambast your product or business practices as unethical, especially when they claim that we take actions requiring capabilities that I, as en engineer, know do not exist. At any rate, via one of my colleagues, here's a reasonably balanced article that stands out amidst the absurdity.

Richard Feynman

bigo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:47:00 -0500

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is 'mere'. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent.

Richard Feynman

When Your Credit Card Signature Fun Backfires

bigo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:43:42 -0500

http://www.drunkrepublic.com/humor-articles/97-when-your-credit-card-signature-fun-backfires

via rhettg

The "I Can Read Movies" Series

bigo — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:09:51 -0500

http://spacesick.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-can-read-movies-series.html

motion pictures re-imagined as novel covers.

Mars Winds Clean Spirit's Solar Panels Again

bigo — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:01:42 -0500

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/18/1943214&from=rss

"In a blast from the past, NASA reports that Spirit's solar panels have received a much-needed cleaning courtesy of the Red Planet. The report states, 'The cleaning boosts Spirit's daily energy supply by about 30 watt-hours, to about 240 watt-hours from 210 watt-hours. The rover uses about 180 watt-hours per day for basic survival and communications, so this increase roughly doubles the amount of discretionary power for activities such as driving and using instruments."

The Lonely Island - Natalie's Rap

bigo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:27:00 -0500

via marc

Lost Generation

bigo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:27:00 -0500

via nema

poor execution

bigo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

they are a hundred thousand reasons,
these raindrops that claw their way through the sky, rushing just to
smash apart against this cement patio like the thunder claps
that detonate against these village walls.

a hundred thousand tiny, insignificant
fractions
of some colossal memory,
fragments
of a life we left behind in the crumpled sheets,
the lights dimmed, sweat and tears -
we slept damp and alone, pressed up against each other.

once a dove, cleaved from its flock,
flew in through my bedroom window,
lost and scared...
so i locked the door behind me and
hoped it would find its
way

Ying's Chinese Cookbook

bigo — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:49:46 -0500

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0977910601/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

awesome. via audrey.

TV report: Eight arrested in link to Phelps bong incident

bigo — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:51:19 -0500

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/02/tv-report-eight.html

despite the fact that it's in USA Today, this is supposedly not a joke.

Judges back a one-third reduction in state prison population

bigo — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:01:51 -0500

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-prisons10-2009feb10,0,6519269.story

"The state's 33 prisons were designed for 84,000 inmates, and they now hold 158,000...The rest of the 170,000 in the correctional system are in out-of-state prisons and other facilities. The judges found that with inmates crammed into institutions, they could not receive the care to which they are entitled under the U.S. Constitution."